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    “Pretty much,” Steve said.
    “Okay,” Pam said, surprised by how well the movie had worked. “So who are you going to show?”
     
    Steve was still basking in his performance, “Not sure.”
     
    Annoyed, she said, “Don’t forget to tell me all about it when you do.”

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 24
     
    “U
    m,” Steve said, a couple of days later. “So about our movie.”
 
    “Yeah?” Pam said.
 
    “It didn’t go that well.”
 
    “Oh.” Pam was suddenly worried. “What, did I…”
 
    “No, not that. I showed Tyler. He told me I was a sick fuck and left.”
 
    “Oh,” Pam said. “Oh shit.”
 
    “Yeah. I’m not sure what to do.”
 
    Pam wanted to punch Steve. He should have been able to read Tyler better. Of all people, why did he pick that friend? He had a holier-than-thou type personality, and she knew he wouldn’t take it well.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 25
     
    A
    couple days after Steve told Pam about Tyler, she was sitting at her desk wondering about where this journey was going. Then her cell phone rang and she recognized the number. It was Tyler.
     
    Tyler told her Steve was showing people films of her.
 
    “I know,” she said. “Um, thanks for telling me, but don’t worry. He told me about it.”
 
    “You don’t mind?”
 
    “Nah, it’s okay.”
 
    She sat there and tried to decide if she should say he could watch it again now he knew it was okay. She decided not to.
    She wondered how awkward it was going to be next time she had to see Tyler. “Tyler, if you could, please keep this between us. I’m not sure what Steve was thinking.”

Chapter 26
     
    “M
    aybe we should give up on this ,” Steve said, as Pam walked into the living room after work.
 
    She sat there for a while, thinking. She was about to agree. This hadn’t ended that well last time, and they were pushing a bit hard trying to make themselves do kinkier things.
 
    She didn’t want to give up. She wanted to try. She’d wanted to try last time with her giving blowjobs until Steve had got jealous and weird and said no.
 
    Last chance, she thought. One last try to make this work.
 
    “We could get someone to watch us,” she said. “If you were into that.”
 
    Steve looked up.
 
    “Just someone here,” Pam said. “With us. Him watching. No movies.”
 
    Steve was thinking.
 
    “It might be better,” she said. “So he knows I’m okay with it. And so I can see him watching me.”
 
    “You’d like that?”
 
    “I think so, yeah.”
 
    Steve was still thinking.
 
    “And he doesn’t touch me at all,” Pam said. “Just to be clear. And we’re very clear to him before we start.”
    “Yeah,” Steve said. “Okay. This could work.”
 
    “Because for you it’s someone watching me, right? Like, someone looking at me and getting turned on?”
 
    He nodded.
 
    “So if they were watching us fuck…,” Pam said.
 
    “You’d do that?”
 
    Pam shrugged.
 
    “You don’t mind?”
 
    “I don’t mind doing shit that turns you on,” she said. “Because of how I love you and everything. But you are kind of a difficult prick to please.”
 
    He grinned.
 
    “I don’t mind,” she said. “I’d even almost like to. The giving head thing, that was better than I thought it’d be, so what the fuck, let’s try this.”
 
    Steve was still looking at her.
 
    “And since it’s this or a movie, it seems better just to fuck. Like someone watching is just kinky, and excusable, but watching a movie means I thought it through enough to make a film.”
 
    “I think I understand.”
 
    “Good. Because it makes sense to me.” Pam sat there for a moment, watching him. “So you want to? Let some other guy check me out?”
 
    “If you do, yeah.”
 
    “I think I do.”
 
    “Okay,”